Donkeyshott & Xuitlacoche

From left to right, Gertrude Sultan (nee Hall) , Edith Sultan, Granny Hall, May Hall, Gertrude's son, Arthur Lewis Hall The house ended up as an old age people's home, but I think it still exists. The date the picture was taken was about 1906.

Tony Hall and Eve Steinhardt are on the left. If anyone can tell me who the other people are I would be grateful. I think the bearded student in the middle might be the best man at their wedding, Geoff.

  Gertrude's daughter, Philip, Granny Hall, Connie, Arthur L. Hall

 

Rosalie Riddick-Hall nee Powell Granny Hall, my great great grandmother, not Rosalie, who was my great grandmother, looks a little like the Duchess in Tenniel's picture in Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps that is unkind, but there is slight resemblance. She sits on the beach on a deckchair in a heavy full length dress. She is wearing what looks like an upturned bowl on her head. The hat is covered in a scarf which is tied around her neck in a big bow. She looks at the photographer unsmiling; judgmental; through a pair of gold wire-rimmed glasses. On one side of her is Auntie Connie with a spade, on the other side is great uncle Philip. Arthur with walking stick in boots flanks her on the right. Pretty and thoughtful, in a double breasted coat with a white bonnet, a beautiful dark skinned young woman stands on the left: Gertrude's daughter. Granny Hall's grand daughter. Great, Great Granny hall was intelligent. When Captain Riddick left her he provided for her but not well

Corky giving an inspirational talk at a girl's school Colin wanted to see us and arranged to do so. It was dark and 8th avenue is split into two, with a little park in the middle and so he was stranded on the other side. I leaped off to get him and we drove back. Colin is Dad's cousin and Dad always spoke very affectionately of him. Mike said that Colin was Head Boy at Pretoria boys' high and captain of different sports teams and quite tough when he was young. Colin admitted as much. 'Managing, he said, is getting other people to do what you want by ensuring that they listen to you and do what you say and you must back up any threats you make, implied or spoken, with real consequences. It's a game.' he said. 'When I was starting out in a company I used to take the elevator to the top floor so everyone would make the assumptions I wanted them to make of me and then walk back down the stairs again.' In this way Corky got to be CEO of South African

We, the London Hall Family, offer our sincere condolences to the family of Ian Pollock, son of Connie and Jack Pollock, of Pretoria. Phil, Chris and Andy Hall and families